A sortie of Chinese bombers landed at a Russian air base for the first time, the Russian government said Wednesday, as Western leaders contemplated China’s emergence as a threat to NATO members.
“We do not seek conflict with China; on the contrary, we want to avoid it,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters in Romania."We don’t want a new Cold War; we’re not looking to decouple our economies. We’re simply looking to be clear-eyed about some of the challenges that China poses and ... to make sure that, in addressing those challenges, we’re doing it with others.”
“The air task force composed of Tu-95MS strategic missile-carrying bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces and Hong-6K strategic bombers of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army conducted an aerial patrol over the waters of the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea," the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made that point more forcefully this week by forcing a Chinese state-owned nuclear company to abandon its role in a British power plant project.
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